Jaafar Mounir Benabbou, Morocco’s MI Champion Introduction Jaafar Mounir Benabbou is General Manager and co-founder of Solar e-Cycles Morocco. Born in Paris, he earned a bachelor’s degree in science and mathematics at Hassan 2 High School in Safi, Morocco, and attended preparatory classes for engineering at Lycée Marceau, Chartes, France…

Those familiar with Mission Innovation will no doubt be aware of the work of the Innovation Challenges (ICs). Over the past four and a half years, MI members and partners have come together through the ICs, focusing on the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy secur…

Dr Michaela Kendall, the UK’s MI Champion Dr Michaela Kendall, the UK’s Mission Innovation Champion, is the co-inventor of microtubular solid oxide fuel cells and is chief executive of Birmingham-based Adelan, one of the world’s first fuel cell businesses. Adelan has attracted substantial inward investment to the UK to develop hydrogen techno…

Dr Purnima Jalihal is a senior scientist who heads the Energy and Fresh Water group at the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), India. She has coordinated many first-ever projects in ocean energy and desalination. Her tremendous contribution in setting up the first-ever ocean thermal gradient-based desalination plant at Kavaratti island i…

In 2016, Mission Innovation members pledged to seek to “double their investments in clean energy research & development over five years” as well as to “set in place an information-sharing system that could provide information on plans for and progress toward each Member’s efforts towards the doubling target and to facilitate internation…